Hello everyone.. i haven't been active here in a couple weeks. the last time i talked on here i discussed how my doctor said my ELISA test for lyme was positive. She wanted me to get a western blot test. They will not diagnose me because I only had one marker out of 5 to be officially diagnosed with lyme. the reason I even thought about lyme was because of my symptoms. Two months ago I got a bite. Days after i started to have severe anxiety, depression, hand tremor, awful headaches that last all day, chest pains, pins and needles felt through out whole body. Sharp shooting pains. Sharp head pains, TONS of eye floaters.. today I went to a new doctor and he basically laughed in my face, said it was not possible i had it, and said there was nothing he could do for me. I have been taking Citalopram 20mg for 9 weeks, At first my doctor told me it was all just anxiety.. on here i met such nice people that almost assured me it was just anxiety, but something inside of me keeps telling me im sick and I feel like im fighting something off. My parents just yelled at me and told me to go back to work because "its all in my head, and doctors keep saying you're fine.".. i haven't been to work in 2 months because of how sick i felt. Granted, i do feel maybe 50% better than i did two months ago.. but something in me just isnt right. Could this seriously just be anxiety? could anxiety cause these symptoms for this long? please somebody talk to me. im at my lowest point and i no longer know what to believe anymore. Sorry this is so long, i needed to vent. :(
Hi,
Trust the advice of your doctors they are medically trained professionals.
The Cit should be working by now after 9 weeks, maybe your dose needs reassessing if it is not helping you to feel less anxious.
Citalopram did nothing for me, I got switched to Trazodone which worked well but everyone is different, for some it may have been perfect.
Ask your doc for a medication review.
Good luck 